On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:16, Matt Brubeck wrote: > At least some of the recent font problems are caused by changes to > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf shipped with the fontconfig package. > > In fonts.conf from fontconfig 2.1.91-1, "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" > has been replaced with "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1". This prevents > many standard fonts from being available to fontconfig applications. > > Before I file a bug, can anyone explain if this is known or intentional?
>From the comment in fontconfig's configure.in: # Add more fonts if available. By default, add only the directories # with outline fonts; those with bitmaps can be added as desired in # local.conf or ~/.fonts.conf I'm guessing he did this so that only high-quality fonts are displayed by default. I'm neutral on this; if people would like to see bitmap fonts in the default path then I'll add them.
